Fingerprint matching, which I think is called AFIS? It always looked like the technician marked a certain type of characteristic on the fingerprint and those points are matched against the database. Anyone know how that works? I watch those forensic shows and am left wondering.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Jan 04, 2006 9:55:58 am PST #7324 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 9:56:33 am PST #7325 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Telephone operators?
Voice recognition is in enormously widespread use, and it's definitely an AI technology.
See, I don't think of those as AI because I hate them, and although it's cheaper, often less effective for me as the consumer.
I mean, I thought I was call-avoidant, but as soon as I hear that phone option tree coming, I'm hammering 0 as hard as possible to get to someone who understands what I want. Never mind the phone applications that want me to talk to them instead of hit keys. Even worse.
It's still pretending, for me.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 9:56:38 am PST #7326 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
All those things still sound like a lot of figuring, quickly, though. Isn't AI supposed to be more?
Kathy A - Jan 04, 2006 9:56:45 am PST #7327 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Keeping with the robot theme, today's featured gadget at CNN online is the Scooba! Considering how much I detest washing my kitchen and bathroom floors, this is something I must get.
Spidra Webster - Jan 04, 2006 9:57:01 am PST #7328 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
BTW- I love your tagline, Dana.
eta: oop. I might have posted that in the wrong thread. Sometimes "read new" is dangerous.
msbelle - Jan 04, 2006 9:57:02 am PST #7329 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Fingerprint matching, which I think is called AFIS? It always looked like the technician marked a certain type of characteristic on the fingerprint and those points are matched against the database. Anyone know how that works? I watch those forensic shows and am left wondering.
magic.
Doug Henning in a warehouse somewhere hooked up to wires and shit.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 9:58:14 am PST #7330 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
See, I don't think of those as AI because I hate them, and although it's cheaper, often less effective for me as the consumer.
I don't mean customer service, I mean the actual switching. Which used to be done by people, and is now completely automated. (It's not "intelligent" persay, but it is a human job that is now done by machines.)
Dana - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:05 am PST #7331 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And...O'Reilly called the Great Britain intelligence service "M one 6." Uh...
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:25 am PST #7332 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
See, I don't think of those as AI because I hate them,
Yeah? Well, I hate Microsoft Word, but that doesn't make it any less of a software application.
A non-hatable voice-recognition application is your voice-triggered cellphone.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:53 am PST #7333 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Doug Henning in a warehouse somewhere hooked up to wires and shit.
Zombie magic.